COP27: Empowering people to help meet net zero
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Three consumer protection priorities in the time of AI
Work has already started to improve transparency in AI. To ensure people are the true beneficiaries of this new technology, effective consumer protection needs to be built in at three key stages.
Read MoreAnne Fransen Fund 2024 Projects Announced
Consumers International is delighted to announce that six of our members have been chosen to receive funding through the Anne Fransen Fund (AFF). This year’s winners are from Ecuador, Fiji, Mexico,…
Read MoreWorld Environment Day 2020
In our blog to mark World Environment Day 2020, our Sustainable Consumption Manager, Naomi Scott-Mearns, explores the potential for consumers, and consumer advocacy, to be a powerful actor in taking…
Read MoreGreen Action Week: What does ‘sharing community’ look like in 2020?
Populations in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to the spread of COVID-19. Across the globe, borders have shut, national emergencies have been declared and restrictions in the…
Read MoreSustainable Consumption
If everyone lived the lifestyle of the average person in western Europe, we would need three planets to support us. Meanwhile, about one billion people live in extreme poverty, unable to access the…
Read MoreCodex Alimentarius
Official observer status Consumers International has official observer status, as well as a long history of co-operation with the world food standards setting body, Codex Alimentarius. We…
Read MoreCircular Economy
Accelerating the shift towards a global circular economy for the benefit of people and planet. In the past six years, globally, we have consumed over half a trillion tonnes of materials. The linear…
Read MoreHealthy Diets
Unhealthy diets have become a major global killer. Poor diet now ranks above tobacco use as the leading risk factor for death from non-communicable diseases. Every year 16 million people die before…
Read MoreConsumer Champions Steward for a Just Transition to Sustainable Lifestyles
Consumer advocates and global leaders unite for World Consumer Rights Day 2025, calling for affordability, accessibility, and systemic change. Read more.
Read MoreAnne Fransen Fund 2025 Projects Announced
Consumers International is delighted to announce that six of our members have been chosen to receive funding through the Anne Fransen Fund (AFF). This year’s winners are from Bolivia, Saint Lucia,…
Read More08042016: Anne Fransen Fund 2016 projects announced
Six Consumers International (CI) Members from six countries will promote the protection of consumers around the globe through funding provided by the Anne Fransen Fund 2016. The projects, all…
Read MoreWorld Obesity Day marks growing health crisis
New figures indicate 2.7 billion adults worldwide will be overweight by 2025, up from 2 billion in 2014. The figures have been released by the World Obesity Federation on 11 October 2015, World…
Read MoreNew CI study finds public unaware of global diet risks
A Consumers International (CI) poll suggests that huge numbers of the public are unaware of the major impact that unhealthy diets are having on global public health. More than 80% of people…
Read MoreWCRD 2015: CI Member to launch salt reduction campaign
CI Member IDEC – Brazilian Institute of Consumer Defence has launched a website and their campaign “The sodium that you do not see” as part of their activities to mark World Consumer Rights Day…
Read MoreCI Member pushes for colour-coded nutrition labels in France
CI Member UFC-Que Choisir has urged the French government to adopt colour-coded front-of-pack nutrition labelling following a study backing its effectiveness.
Read More20160531: Will the Ending Childhood Obesity (ECHO) report make a difference for consumers?
Justin Macmullan, Consumers International’s Head of Advocacy discusses the recent report by the Commission for Ending Childhood Obesity, endorsed by the World Health Assembly last week, and outlines…
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